Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:27:39PM +0100, Marc Zonzon wrote: > >> because I don't want to open root to anybody, to put a password for user was >> not alsways convenient even with 770 as pointed in the BecomeRoot2 howto, >> and >> it seems that on N800 the system want to forbid it because it answers: >> >> ~ $ passwd >> The password for user cannot be changed. > > That's because you are running passwd as user, and user doesn't have a > password set. If you run 'passwd user' as root, it should work.
Yes, that works (at least it did on the 770). I've used this to set a password for user so that I can then run an FTP server for user. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers